来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第1集 第1集》

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  Of course there should be a national union.
  当然该有一个国家联盟
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  Those are all the sorts of things that I think we do assume
  这些都是我们会假设的事
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  and that's a lot of assumptions; that's a lot of "Of courses,"
  还有很多的假设 有很多的"当然"
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  But in fact it's important to remember
  但是事实上 最重要的是人们
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  that people didn't know what was going to happen.
  不知道当时会发生什么
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  You really need to allow for contingency because literally
  所以说会有意外的事情发生 因为事实上
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  what they assumed was: anything can happen.
  可以假设的是: 任何事都可能发生
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  Anything can happen.
  任何事都可能发生
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  Again one of the things that I love about this time period is
  我喜欢这个时期的原因之一就是
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  that the emotions are so heightened.
  因为情感都被调动起来了
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  If you're in an atmosphere where everything's up in the air
  如果处于一种前途不可知晓的情况下
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  and you're in the middle of a revolution or you're trying to
  投身于革命之中 或者是试着建立